Setting Up Selenium With IntelliJ
For automating the checking of websites there is no product I like better than Selenium. Why? Because it's free, can be used with multiple languages, and is easy to set-up. It has it's down sides - tests can be flaky - but this is not unique to Selenium, any browser test tool experiences these issues. Once you become familiar you can learn ways to work around the issues of race conditions and flaky tests. Here I will walk through the steps to setting up IntelliJ to use Selenium with JUnit. In this instance we will be using Chrome browser on a windows machine. These are the things you will need: IntelliJIDE JavaJDK Chrome browser Selenium java library JUnit library chromedriver 1- Download IntelliJ IDEcommunity version https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/download/download-thanks.html?platform=windows&code=IIC 2- Download Selenium library https://www.seleniumhq.org/download/ 3- Download Chrome Driver library https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedri...